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I wish we had more thugs like that in our area.
Thanks, everyone. Those look my kind of tea!
Just wondered if anyone might have some recommendations for the between the wars / 20s-30s / "Lost Generation" era as the setting? Since I love first-person narrations, I'd welcome a good...
It's been a long time, but there's a great one that focuses on how his depression shaped his life and presidency. I believe it was called Lincoln's Melancholy. Very inspirational, especially if...
Faulkner
Wilde
Waugh
Steinbeck
The ones I enjoyed, anyway.
One story, or one book?
If story, probably these:
Remembrance of Things Past (all 7)
Winston Churchill's World War II series. I got bored after the third book though.
The Worst Journey in...
Another vote for this position. What you need is one of those triangle foam/cotton backrests. Put it against the wall, one pillow behind you and another on your tummy. Place book on tummy pillow. ...
First...:sosp:
Second...Yes, many.
Same here. Used to highlight, underline, margin write to no end when first started college. By my senior year I was using brackets and the occasional note and comprehending/remember twice as much. ...
Agreed
Is there some overreaction to this new surveillance state considering the limits of its technological reach, intent, and capability? Probably. But that's a bad thing, why?? If history...
Everything. Persuasion was her only novel I really enjoyed and didn't slog through.
Emma and Atlas Shrugged
They're a little older than you requested, but I believe Brideshead is set in the early 20s.
Great stuff. I think those suggestions are a bullseye, as several mentioned are also among my favorites.
Thanks much
$Powerball$
I just finished listening to the audiobook of Lolita performed by Jeremy Irons and was completely blown away.
So...now I'm desperately trying to find something similar. Let's see...something...
Stylistic prowess. Just finished Lolita. It's all downhill from here :biggrin5:
^^Good points, Drkshadow. "Better" covers a lot of territory and we were never given a fence line. Many of the professionals/yuppies I know are 'better' than me in the way Darcy described,...
I know a few psychologists and psychiatrists who would love to have a word with you over that one :rolleyes:
If you seriously believe that the works Darcy introduced have had absolutely no impact on people's (not necessarily as a whole since we can't quantify that) betterment, I think we all better quit...
Possibly, yes. Just depends on how you define "better". Is a work without moral value if it spawns a Ted Bundy, but inspires a billion others to lead a life of piety and non-violence? I suppose,...
I'm a little shocked that so many (especially lit students) dismiss literature's potential for having moral value. Does it all? Of course not. Depends a lot on what we're talking about. There's a...
I couldn't have said it better...
One other thing: try your local library. I've been able to download some REALLY good stuff--Lolita and Brideshead Revisited read by Jeremy Irons, I, Claudius read by Robert Graves and Derek Jacobi,...
No such thing--whatever you're into.
I might argue my mom has a substandard library owing to the fact that there isn't a classic to found. But since she iced the SAT's verbal...well...LOL
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